How can you use negative numbers to represent real-world problems

Hi, basically when we want to use negative numbers in real world problems, we should always put words like decrease, drops, less, because those words describe an explicit situation that describes subtraction, for example Ana is playing soccer with her friends, her score is less than 0 because she has been trying to mark a goal but she is unable to do it. The score of Ana is - 5, the score of her friend is - 2.